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Road order

29 May 1783 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

A named jury, or any twelve members, was appointed to lay out a road from Hillsborough to Jackson’s.

Kind of business
Road order
Court
May 1783 term, 29 May 1783
Road jury
Sam'l. Clenny; John Douglas; John Kelley; Jacob Brinton; Wm. Jackson; John Wood; John Mitchell; William Whitehead; Alex Carson; Wm. Cain; Anthony Daugherty; Wm. Dunnegan; Thomas Holden; Wm. Cain; John Latta; George Newton
Places
Hillsborough; Jackson's

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Folio and page 20-157
  • Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 16 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
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